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All Tru64 Unix 5.1e licenses !
DEC Licenses were always hard to get :) just like the most quality mushrooms in the autumn forest. When I was a small boy my grand-father taught me the art of mushroom hunting. I recognized the good...
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Compiling sudo on OSF1 tru64 V5.1 2650 alpha
Once you have all the Tru64 UNIX licenses in place, you want go multiuser. So add your users, groups etc and start worrying about elevating to root A short howto on compiling and installing sudo...
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Compiling GCC 4.4.7 on Tru64 5.1B
We don’t want to die … and having the Easter feast recently I wanted to bring from the dead the OSF1 Tru64 5.1B Unix once again. Another thing that I have brought from the dead is my old Twitter...
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pkgsrc on Tru64 5.1B
So after we have a usable GCC for Tru64 we can move on to put it to some good use. I prefer pkgsrc. pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems. It was...
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GCC 4.4.7 and pkgsrc-current (April/May 2017)
# env CC=/data/gcc-new/bin/gcc CXX=/data/gcc-new/bin/g++ CFLAGS=-O2 ./bootstrap CC libarchive/archive_check_magic.lo CC libarchive/archive_cmdline.lo CC libarchive/archive_cryptor.lo CC...
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Building pkgsrc perl on Tru64 5.1B
My adventures compiling perl5 in /pkgsrc/lang/perl5 Tru64 UNIX and pkgsrc OS – Tru64 Unix 5.1B pkgsrc 2014 May current – bootstrap works fine Using pkgsrc-current snapshot from 2014-May Building perl5...
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Compiling elinks 0.11.7 on Tru64 5.1B
I have noticed that there is no OSF/1 Tru64 on the elinks homepage http://elinks.or.cz/about.html Decided to build one to include it in the hall of elinks fame (love curses browsers). So here is the...
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Bashbunny with Metasploit ms17_010_eternalblue vs. Windows 7 SP1 x64
I have finally got the Bashbunny from HAK5, and I can say this is really an Imperial Star Destroyer compared to the Teensy++ 2.0 A-Wing that I have used 6 years ago. Bashbunny is capable of running...
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Short demo of a CVE-2017-7494 on Debian8 Jessie
Awsome work by HDMoore; Metasploit Module (exploit/linux/samba/is_known_pipename). I have prepared a short video demo on a Debian 8 Jessie (amd64) running stock Samba 4.2.14 deb8up5.
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NTFS ‘$MFT’ Windows 10 crash
Who said this bug does not work on Windows 10 ? .. I have tried and although I don’t get a fancy BSOD the system is fried and unusable by a simple set of commands (repeat) notepad c:\$mft\test - click...
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Alphavm_free and BSDs
Unfortunately Alphavm_free from Emuvm does not boot the stock BSD Alpha ISOs (NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD). I have tried the following versions https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/floppyB59.fs...
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Alphavm_free and Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux looks like the last Linux Distro that supports the dying Alpha architecture. Actually it runs pretty nicely on the Alphavm simulator Configuration for is pretty straight forward...
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Installing Gentoo Linux on Alphavm
Please regard this article as something of a work journal rather than exact steps instructions. Definitely not for someone not familiar with Linux/UNIX environment – but then again who the hell would...
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Metasploit Framework running on Alpha (Gentoo) Matrix Style
Has anybody managed to run Metasploit framework on other architecture than x86, amd64, ppc, arm, sparc ? I would love to know, please ping me. I have managed to run it on Alpha architecture via...
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CFEngine-3.11.0b1 install/compile on Alpha Gentoo
With my colleague @ work we have made a bet that if I would ever make a CFEngine run on Alpha systems I would get a diploma for CFEngine. So “Clouseau” here is a build of CFEngine 3.11beta running on...
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Building CFEngine2 on Tru64 5.1B UNIX
Now this is retro computing once again, and I always love to get back to it. I have used the process described in my previous article https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/pkgsrc-on-tru64-5-1b/...
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CFEngine 3.11.01b on Bashbunny
This is meant for autonomous non-networked systems where we take the advantage of CFEngine and Bashbunny automation. I liked this exercise as it shows the great potential of CFEngine as well as the...
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OSX 10.11 on Linux via VirtualBox
This has been covered about million times already, but I needed to get a relatively new OSX up and running and I have no access to an actual Mac to create the bootable ISO to use in VirtualBox. So here...
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Computer Archeology – ULTRIX
Todays exercise we are going to concentrate on the MIPS architecture, particularly on the DECstation 5000/200 If we have no access to the actual hardware, we will use the excellent machine emulator...
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